Abstract of a Research Paper written using ChatGPT
ChatGPT often generates words that may require a dictionary for understanding, or it comes up with words that just sound magical. This isn’t only true for ChatGPT, other open-source language models like Mistral do the same. There’s no harm in seeking assistance from AI to create content, as long as it’s done ethically, but in a science-writing competition for 14–16 year-olds, a judge got suspicious when he saw the phrase “Labyrinthian mazes” in an essay, which seemed too advanced for a teenager writing. So, he used AI tools to check it. Unfortunately, all four tools gave the same result, almost the entire essay, around 90–96%, seemed to be written by AI, not a human. However, not all of us are professionals, If we see the above phrase, we may have skipped it due to our limited awareness.
There is a need for critical thinking skills to identify if AI is the author
The easiest way to spot AI-generated text is by checking for words that you don’t usually use but are common for ChatGPT. Consider a massive corpus of over 19 billion English words from blogs, articles, news, and more, updated daily from 2010 to now. I looked for the word “delve” using a string search algorithm, and it showed up 52,388 times. I plot its yearly pattern and…